Now, we can add some special parameters to grab the most recent observations. Add to your url the following &start=-365&end=now to limit your results to the last year of observations. The -365 is the number of days before the current date and time to include. You may tailor this to your needs. You can of course also use full dates, but this allows your query to be dynamic and useful in the future.

STEP 3: Enjoy

Here's a Live Example

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What you see here is a live example of the same code from Step 2 above except instead of using the onload event of the html body, the scripts are placed immediately following the div element inside the html body. Using this method you may place live maps on blogs, forums and other websites.

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